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A New Neighborhood for an Old City: The Resettlement of the Athenian Agora in the Middle Byzantine Period [PDF]

open access: yesAleph, UCLA Undergraduate Research Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018
When Rome fell in 476 CE, the city of Athens in Greece also shrank, moving inside its walls to protect its people. This left the Agora, the bustling marketplace which sat outside the walls, abandoned. In the tenth century, at the economic height of the Byzantine Empire, Athens expanded outside its walls, ushering in a new period of rebuilding in the ...
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Pollen analysis of core DS7-1SC (Dead Sea) showing intertwined effects of climatic change and human activities in the Late Holocene

open access: yes, 2010
The Dead Sea sediment holds the archives of a complex relationship between ever-changing nature and ancient civilisations. Here the detailed pollen analyses of core DS7-1SC (off-Ein-Gedi) are presented for the first time.
Leroy, SAG
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Image, Epigram, and Nature in Middle Byzantine Personal Devotion [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In Nectar and Illusion, Henry Maguire examines Byzantium's ambiguous relationship with nature in both art and literature. He demonstrates that after Iconoclasm, visual representations of the terrestrial world displayed in public settings were in "a ...
Brad Hostetler
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Middle Byzantine Historiography: Tradition, Innovation, and Reception

open access: yes, 2015
This paper provides an overview of Greek historical writing of the Middle Byzantine period (approx. 800 until 1000 A.D., with a particular focus on the major chronicles, such as Theophanesthe Confessor (early 9th c.), George the Monk (probably late 9th c.
Staffan Wahlgren
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Records and Transformations of Memories in the Cultural Landscape of Idomeni (Kilkis, Northern Greece)

open access: yesOpen Archaeology, 2019
Following recent excavations and geophysical prospection at Idomeni in the Kilkis prefecture of Northern Greece, this paper attempts to reconstruct through digital means, the tangible and intangible vestiges of historical episodes that come together to ...
Chatzitoulousis Stamatis   +9 more
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An overview of Byzantine Period settlements around Comana Pontica in north-central Turkey

open access: yes, 2010
The sanctuary of Comana Pontica in north-central Anatolia, dedicated to a local Anatolian deity, Ma, was a significant part of the Hellenistic kingdom of the Mithradatids which continued to be of some importance under the Roman emperors.
Emine Sökmen   +3 more
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Kelliotic and Idiorrhythmic Monasteries in the Middle and Late Byzantine Periods

open access: yesScrinium
Abstract In the modern period idiorrhythmic monasticism was prevalent on Mt Athos and elsewhere. This article seeks to establish when the idiorrhythmic way of life first appeared and how it developed in the Middle and Late Byzantine periods.
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A Group of Liturgical Pieces of the Middle Byzantine Period at the Mugla, Bodrum and Milas Archaeological Museums

open access: yes, 2012
WOS: 000304757100013During investigations we held in Mugla, Bodrum and Milas Museums, architectural sculpture with liturgical function, which are covered by geometrical compositions, were observed.
Ozcan, Hatice Ozyurt
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Two neglected inscriptions from Andros and the activity of donors on the island during the Middle Byzantine period

open access: yes, 2021
Το νησί της Άνδρου ξεχωρίζει ανάμεσα στις Κυκλάδες για την υψηλής ποιότητας αρχιτεκτονική και καλλιτεχνική παραγωγή που έχει να επιδείξει κατά τη μέση βυζαντινή περίοδο.
ΠΑΛΛΗΣ (Georgios PALLIS), Γιώργος
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New Late Antique and Mediaeval Monuments from Miletus and the Middle Byzantine Decay of Anatolian Urbanism

open access: yes, 2017
Während der Feldkampagne 2012 wurde in Milet eine Reihe von neuen spät- und nachantiken Monumenten untersucht: eine Thermenanlage am Osthafen, eine Insula südlich des Westmarkts, die byzantinische Stadtmauer mit einem Prunktor beim Serapeion und ihre ...
Niewöhner, Philipp
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